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Date:      Mon, 1 Sep 1997 14:01:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>
To:        "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CDROM drives in general 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970901135722.1483A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <199709012053.NAA05860@MindBender.serv.net>

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That is interesting, it's a Goldstar 8X R508B, I think it cost me $125 at
the time I bought it, there were actually also 16Xs for $139 but the were
"Cheap Crap", and one of the reasons I bought the Goldstar was because
they had actually printed on the outside of the box "Compatible with
Win95, WinNT, DOS, and Linux", and you don't exactly see that alot when
buying PC Hardware (Referring to Linux Particularily) -- Ofcourse if
freebsd ran QUAKE it probably would of said FreeBSD not Linux.


On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote:

> 
> >Is it just me, or is this normal?
> >I noticed after upgrading a few months ago from an old 2X Panasonic
> >interface CDROM drive to an 8X ATAPI that audio cds skip alot easier when
> >the table my machine is sitting on it subjected to even the smallest shock
> [...]
> 
> Cheaper (read: less well-designed) hardware?
> 
> Much of the "cheap" mega-X CD-ROM drives these days are pretty much
> disposable crap.  You usually do better by getting SCSI, or at least
> getting a bit more expensive name-brand stuff.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   Michael L. VanLoon                           michaelv@MindBender.serv.net
>       Contract software development for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Unix.
>              Windows NT and Unix server development in C++ and C.
> 
>         --<  Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x  >--
>     NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3,
>         Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32...
>     NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others...
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> 




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